Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany

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This paper updates and deepens our understanding of the wage performance of immigrants in Germany. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, it documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills, and with a German degree, and larger for others. The gap declines gradually over time but at a decreasing rate and much faster for more recent cohorts. Less success in obtaining jobs with higher occupational autonomy explains half of the wage gap.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15456/ger.2018033.134322
Metadata Access https://www.da-ra.de/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:oai.da-ra.de:623886
Provenance
Creator Beyer, Robert C.M.
Publisher ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Publication Year 2018
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY); Download
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Contact ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Language English
Resource Type Collection
Discipline Economics